Tag: changes
Owen Sound planning to reduce speed limit on some downtown streets
Owen Sound is planning to make some amendments to its traffic bylaw, including speed limit reductions to some city streets in the downtown area. On Monday, city council approved an operations committee recommendation to direct staff to bring forward a bylaw to amend its traffic bylaw. The amendments being proposed include reducing the speed limit […]
Proposed DNR rule would allow quicker changes to harvest quotas for lake trout, cisco
Currently, the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resource’s process for setting new fishing limits can take years. The agency says that a new rule would allow it to better respond to […]
Trump Wins, Planet Loses
By Tik Root, Grist
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Donald J. Trump will once again be president of the United States.
The Associated Press called the race for Trump early Wednesday morning, ending one of the costliest and most turbulent campaign cycles in the nation’s history.
London city council: Yes to annual tenant fair, no to public pest control
City hall will not move ahead on a public pest control team, but it will make a tenant fair an annual event, politicians decided Tuesday night. In a series of split votes, city council rejected reviewing the city’s property standards bylaw enforcement protocols in a 12-3 vote, and exploring a publicly funded pest extermination team […]
City council steers new homeless ‘drop-in spaces’ away from main streets
Politicians have voted to further crack down on where the city’s homeless can lay their head, specifically in business districts. Not only will encampments and service depots for their residents have to be located roughly a football field’s distance from any residential property line, but resting spaces also will be barred from the main streets […]
The race for clean energy is local
By Emily Jones and Gautama Mehta, Grist
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The U.S. power grid is at a critical crossroads. Electricity generation, like every other industry, needs to rid itself of fossil fuels if the country is to play its role in combating the climate crisis — a transition that will have to happen even as energy providers scramble to meet what they claim is an unprecedented spike in electricity demand, attributed to the rise of AI.
The fraud investigation at London Health Sciences Centre needs to move quickly to safeguard public trust and staff morale, but the Ontario government also has to act, the Opposition health critic at Q
The fraud investigation at London Health Sciences Centre needs to move quickly to safeguard public trust and staff morale, but the Ontario government also has to act, the Opposition health critic at Queenâs Park said Monday. The investigation grabbed the attention of France Gelinas who said she’s concerned patients and workers, including doctors and nurses, […]
New Michigan election rules aim to protect poll workers, streamline certification
Early voting, expanded absentee ballot options and other changes are in full effect for Michiganâs 2024 elections….
OHL Q+A: NCAA threat, red-hot Kitchener Rangers, Czechia star’s arrival
OHL reporter Ryan Pyette is taking questions from fans and colleagues about whatâs happening on the ice, in the general managersâ suites and in the league office throughout the season. Have a question? Put it in the comment section below or email us at lfpnewsletters@postmedia.com Q: There was a recent meeting of 57 Canadian Hockey […]
As downtown changes, Covent Garden Market seeks to keep pace
Londonâs Covent Garden Market is out to reinvent itself, launching a new survey the downtown venue hopes will guide its future and help it stay ahead of the coreâs residential boom. The new survey by the market, available to all Londoners, comes at a time of transformation for the core and market vendors, which until […]